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Anatomy of a Photo: Greg LeMan

This is more like it

Is it the shades?
The W.C. Jersey?
The Z kit?
The d.t. shifters?

Talk amongst yourselves. I just had to get a pic up that’s worthy of this site. Thank me now.

Marko

Marko lives and rides in the upper midwest of the States, Minnesota specifically. "Cycling territory" and "the midwest" don't usually end up in the same sentence unless the conversation turns to the roots of LeMond, Hampsten, Heiden and Ochowitz. While the pavé and bergs of Flanders are his preferred places to ride, you can usually find him harvesting gravel along forest and farm roads. He owes a lot to Cycling and his greatest contribution to cycling may forever be coining the term Rainbow Turd.

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frank says:

Dec 16 2010 at 10:54 am

@Nate
I think he's descending the Tourmalet in the 1990 Tour. It's hard to be sure because you can't see any of the mountain really.
Marko says:

Dec 16 2010 at 11:36 am

@Nate
If you're talking about the photo of the budding hardman in the scrotorola jersey, it looks like Beartooth pass.
Buck Rogers says:

Dec 16 2010 at 11:47 am

frank :
@NateI think he's descending the Tourmalet in the 1990 Tour. It's hard to be sure because you can't see any of the mountain really.

Definitely the 1990 TDF but it's harder to nail the exact stage as he did not don the maillot jeune until after stage 19. I have the old WCP DVD of the 1990 TDF, I'll have to watch it on the trainer and try to find the exact moment of this photo, if possible, buit I think that Frank is correct on his call.
Nate says:

Dec 16 2010 at 12:11 pm

@Marko , @frank , @Buck Rogers
I am thinking of frank's photo. As for the first, there doesn't seem to be enough background in the frame to make a determination, but don't let that stop you, Buck.
Jarvis says:

Dec 16 2010 at 1:27 pm

@Marcus
7 wins in the Tour de France does not a great rider make. Lemond had to fight the Badger for one win, his second win was with no team support and his third was wearing the Rainbow Jersey. That, is greatness.

Also, not being a cunt helps.
ZachOlson says:

Dec 16 2010 at 1:48 pm

Greg LeMan and Conan the Barbarian have a similar philosophy on the best things in life:

"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."
Buck Rogers says:

Dec 16 2010 at 2:12 pm

ZachOlson :
Greg LeMan and Conan the Barbarian have a similar philosophy on the best things in life:
"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."

LOVE that quote! One of my favorites!
Buck Rogers says:

Dec 16 2010 at 2:14 pm

@Jarvis

Not only that but look at Lemon's palmares in the other one day classics and the Giro as well.
Oli Brooke-White says:

Dec 16 2010 at 3:02 pm

If it's the Tourmalet it must be the very lowest slopes as there aren't too many villages like that up there. Without any proof I'd hazard a guess that it isn't an Alpine or Pyreneean descent at all, but a small transition stage descent, perhaps in the Midi - it seems more likely to me that a meaningless downhill is the only place that the motos would be running right alongside LeMond, and that he would be relaxed enough to be gurning at the camera.

Great photo of a great rider.
Marko says:

Dec 16 2010 at 3:27 pm

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, the championship jersey with black shorts and standard kit. pure class. No need for little bits of rainbow accouterment all over the damn bike, sunnies, shoes, waterbottles, saddle, and shit, lest you become the rainbow turd, the jersey says it all. I don't know about you fuckers, but that photo transfixes me. La Vie Velominatus!